Green Bus Lines was a bus company in New York City, United States, managed most recently by Jerome Cooper (son of the late founder/owner William Cooper 1895-1985), operating local service in Queens and express service to Manhattan until January 9, 2006, when the MTA Bus Company took over its routes.
The company was incorporated on April 3, 1925 to provide local service in several boroughs. It acquired several Manhattan routes (including the current M22, M50, M79, M86, and M96) in 1933, but these were transferred to the Comprehensive Omnibus Corporation in 1935 and New York City Omnibus Corporation in 1936, and Green obtained new franchises in southeast Queens. Green also acquired the Manhattan and Queens Bus Corporation, which had operated the ex-Manhattan and Queens Traction Company Queens Boulevard Line into Manhattan since 1937, in 1943.
Green stockholders acquired several other companies that continued to operate independently: Command Bus Company, Triboro Coach Corporation, and Jamaica Buses.
The QM23 was started in the 1950s to replace Long Island Rail Road service to the Brooklyn Manor station on the Rockaway Beach Branch. It was discontinued in 2010. Four more express routes began operation in the 1970s.
Just prior to MTA Bus takeover, Green Bus lines operated the following routes, which mostly continued to be based in Far Rockaway Bus Depot and John F. Kennedy Bus Depot:
- Queens local
- Q6 Sutphin Boulevard
- Q7 Rockaway Boulevard and Pitkin Av
- Q8 101st Avenue
- Q9 Lincoln Street
- Q10 Lefferts Boulevard and Rockaway Blvd Local/Limited to JFK Airport's Central Terminal Areas
- Q11 Woodhaven Boulevard
- Q21 Cross Bay Boulevard
- Q22 Rockaway Beach Boulevard and Beach Channel Drive
- Q35 Newport Avenue and Flatbush Avenue (Brooklyn)
- Q37 111th Street
- Q40 142nd Street
- Q41 127th Street
- Q60 Queens Boulevard
- Q89 (Formerly Q9A) Linden Boulevard and Lincoln Street (discontinued under MTA Bus)
- Express
- QM15 Midtown Manhattan - Lindenwood
- QM16 Midtown Manhattan - Rockaway Park
- QM17 Midtown Manhattan - Far Rockaway
- QM18 Midtown Manhattan - South Ozone Park, via Lefferts
- QM23 Midtown Manhattan - Brooklyn Manor (discontinued under MTA Bus)
Famous quotes containing the words green, bus and/or lines:
“When the red-cheeked, dancing girls, April and May, trip home to the wintry, misanthropic woods; even the barest, ruggedest, most thunder-cloven old oak will at least send forth some few green sprouts, to welcome such glad-hearted visitants.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“There was an old man from Darjeeling
Who got on a bus bound for Ealing.
It said at the door,
“Please don’t spit on the floor,”
So he carefully spat on the ceiling.”
—Anonymous.
“He does smile his face into more lines than is in the new map with the augmentation of the Indies.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)